About us
What we do
CTPI is an evidence-based, analytical initiative established in response to government demand for a strategic prioritisation framework to meet three key policy objectives: national security, energy resilience and economic growth. Our analysis can help guide policy action through allowing real trade-offs and provides a practical playbook for how to turn these decisions into bankable investments along value-chains.
CTPI weighs supply chain vulnerabilities across clean energy and industrial technologies to find where targeted actions and international partnerships can reduce strategic exposure at reasonable cost. We could also offer technical expertise to help turn high-level geopolitical ambition into specific measures that governments, industry and financial actors can implement with real-world results.
Whether and where capacity for clean technologies is built this decade will determine the security of supply for generations to come.
The vision
CTPI’s insight is that, to meet today’s political vision across many countries - of strengthening strategic autonomy and continuing to decarbonise the economy - governments can best deliver this through adopting a global value-chain based approach based on existing strengths and addressable vulnerabilities through trusted partnerships. Effective delivery would involve each trusted partner being able to anchor some high-value activity at home but that ‘wins’ will necessarily need to be shared across all of the technologies / sectors. Our thesis is that onshoring full supply chains fails on cost and time for any given economy.
The vision
Our team
CTPI’s Chair and project lead is Peter Hill, formerly CEO of COP26 and Principal Private Secretary to the UK Prime Minister. The experts at CTPI are independent, not-for-profit and non-governmental, and come with experience in policy, the private sector, and financial institutions.
Our team
How we work
CTPI is combining an analytical exercise with a policy exercise, building on existing work that has been going on for at least two years, utilising databases of global supply chains that have been mapped by partners for example the IEA, Rhodium Group, the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins Advanced School of International Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Bruegel.
